1898 Movies

"Shows 34th Michigan boys hard at work with pick and shovel, preparing the way for passage of seige guns."

Film produced by William K. Dickson’s British Mutoscope and Biograph Company.

This boat was the first one to leave for the South with troops. On board is a battalion of the 5th U.S. Infantry.

From one angle, a line of soldiers are shown walking up the gangplank.

Sailors training with swords.

Staging of the title event.

Street scene of LA in 1898.

A method soldier boys have for amusing themselves in their leisure moments. New comrades are frequently initiated by the old-fashioned sport of tossin...

An adaptation of the folk tale.

During the Alaska gold rush, one way to reach the Klondike was over the Chilkoot Pass. A stationary camera is placed to see a ways down the curving tr...

A group of escaped reconcentrados, saved from the fate of starvation imposed by the Butcher, Weyler.

The Last Supper, part 6 of Alexandre Promio's Passion Play.

A young woman stumbles across a cave that is populated by the spirits and skeletons of people who died there under mysterious circumstances.

A young, dark-haired woman performs a dance inspired by George du Maurier's character Trilby, in an early modern dance style reminiscent of Isadora Du...

This Victorian duel between knife-wielding women was taken from an existing stage production, thought to be the Drury Lane theatre melodrama 'Women an...

Shows the despatch boat of the 'New York Journal' steaming through the water, having aboard the war correspondents.

“A file of Spanish soldiers line up the Cubans against a blank wall and fire a volley. The flash of rifles and drifting smoke make a very striking pic...

A soldier and a serving-girl are courting on a bench. A fat old lady sits on the bench, interrupting them.